Freegan Movement

(dumpster divers and scavengers). What do they do: Bring stuff to flea markets, Informal flea markets • Urban Foraging / Dumpster Diving – The practice of recovering useable items from dumpsters or street curbs that have been needlessly discarded. • Food Not Bombs – Food Not Bombs recovers food that would otherwise go to waste to serve warm meals on the street to anyone who wants it. • Squatting – Squatters find abandoned buildings and restore them into rent free housing and community centers with arts and educational programs for low-income communities. (contains blog) • Wild Foraging- find and harvest food and medicinal plants growing in their own communities. (pick from parks/gardens) "Wildman Steve Brill" Foraging events in NYC http://wildmanstevebrill.com/